Discrimination

The Republican Party, according to Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times, is "in the middle of an argument with itself. Efforts to discriminate against gay couples have laid bare and intensified longtime divisions in the party between social conservatives opposed to gay rights and the pro-business wing of the party that sees economic peril in the fight."

Charles Francis, founder of the Republican Unity Coalition during the George W. Bush administration, writes that the Republican Party "is a pro-business party with a gay exception, and that exception comes into play over and over again." He sees the need to "eliminate sexual orientation issues...

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